Autoscroll

Autoscroll paces the chord chart from top to bottom over the song's duration. Hit Play, the chart scrolls so the song ends as the chart finishes. No more reaching for the screen mid-verse.

Start it

Tap the Play button in the top strip. Both autoscroll AND (if Follow mode is on, the default) the line-highlight play-head start together.

To pause: tap Pause in the top strip, OR tap anywhere in the chart body.

Spacebar (or the P key) does the same thing as the button.

[screenshot: stage view with Play button highlighted]

Tap-to-pause

A short tap anywhere on the chart body pauses autoscroll. This is on purpose — your hand brushed the screen mid-song, tap toggles pause, you reach back, tap again, you're going.

Taps on interactive elements (buttons, the leader pill, etc.) don't trigger this — only "empty" chart-area taps.

Pacing

Loadout uses the song's durationSeconds field to compute the scroll speed: chart pixel height divided by duration. So a song you've marked as 4:00 will scroll the full chart in exactly 4:00.

The 3:30 fallback

If a song has no duration set, autoscroll falls back to 3:30 — the typical length of cover/wedding-band material. Floored at 30 seconds so a 0-duration song doesn't blast through the chart instantly.

The first time you start autoscroll on a setlist with at least one duration-less song, you'll see a one-time toast explaining the fallback. Edit the song to set its real duration; the toast won't show again until you dismiss the nudge.

Tip: Manual-entry songs default to no duration until you fill it in. Set it on the song edit screen so autoscroll stops falling back to the 3:30 default.

Speed override

The bottom status row shows your current rate (e.g., 0.85× scroll) and pause state. The rate resets to 1.0× on each song change — overrides are per-song, not persistent.

When autoscroll doesn't move

If you hit Play and nothing scrolls:

• The chart fits the viewport entirely — there's nothing to scroll. Reduce font size, or rely on Follow mode for line highlighting instead.
• The current item is a break, not a song.
• Your device's wake-lock failed and the screen dimmed. Tap to wake.

Heads up: If autoscroll appears to do nothing on desktop specifically, you're on an older build before #133. Refresh — that fix shipped the sub-pixel accumulator that browsers were rounding off.

What's next

• Gestures and shortcuts — every interaction reference.
• Stage view overview — the bigger picture.